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Another innocent who believes in the the ultimate goodness of the DPRK.

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It's awfully kind of the DPRK to keep accepting our mentally ill citizens. I just wish that they would keep them instead of returning them to us (for a profit)...

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"In his comments to reporters, Martinez strongly criticized the U.S. for alleged human rights violations."

No criticism of North Korea for human rights violations? Oh, wait, he's in Pyongyang, never mind...

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Well, I am sure hell get treated well in Pyong Yang as long as they can use him as a useful propaganda tool. Lets wait how he does when they don´t need him any more...

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/11292784/Bipolar-American-who-defected-to-North-Korea-paraded-in-front-of-media.html

Martinez's mother, Patricia Eugenia Martinez of El Paso, told CNN that her son was bipolar and earlier had tried to enter North Korea by swimming across a river, but was stopped and shipped back to the United States, where he was placed in a California psychiatric hospital.

"Then he got out," she told the network. "He is very smart and he got the court to let him out, and instead of coming home to us he bought a ticket and left for China. He took out a payday loan online and left for China."

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It's strange that this guy could go straight from a psychiatric hospital to China without going home first. Did he have his passport and Chinese visa with him in the hospital?

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Watch him want to come home later

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